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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.335,849, dated February 9, 138.

Application filed January 10, 1885. Serial No. 152,480. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON STERN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Bustle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved bustlewhich is strong, light, durable, Ventilating, and has great su pporting power.

The invention consists of the combination of parts, including their construction, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figo res.

Figure l is a plan view ofthe under side of my improved bustle, partly broken away, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional'elevation of the same.

The bustle A is made ot' straw,willow, reed, rattan, wood, or i other vegetable ber, which is either plaited to form the bustle of one single and continuous piece, or the vegetable liber is braided, and the braids are overlapped and sewed together at the edges in the same manner as the braids of straw hats are sewed together. The bustle is then sized and shaped in suitable dies.

The bustle may be made of open-work, or

may be made partly of the vegetable ber and partly of other material-such as fabric, gauze, netting, Src. A belt, B, is secured to the top edge of the bustle, and abinding, C, and stii ener, D, are sewed or otherwise secured to the bottom edges, and one or more stiffeners, E, extend from the top to the bottom edges, either on the inside or outside, the inside being pre ferred. rIhe stiffeners are preferably made of vulcanized fiber or of celluline.

The bustle may be corrugated or embossed, and may be given any desired suitable shape.

If desired, a lining, F, may be secured on the inside or outside of the bustle, either plain or perforated.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a bustle made of plaited or braided straw, reed, rattan, or other vegetable fiber of a similar nature, which straw bustle is provided with a stitfening-strip sewed to the bustle along the bottom edge, and independent stiffening-stri ps extending from the top edge to the bottom edge, substantially as herein shown and described.

AARON STERN.

hvitnesses:

OscAR F. GUNZ, C. SEDGWIOK. 

